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CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

jcjs333 Music too irritating stretching out the , even more , irritatingly going nowhere film. I tried to open my art house heart by telling myself they are doing such a great job of acting and the sets are wonderful thus i need to appreciate this film. But, i couldn't make myself like it. Maybe i was in the wrong mood. I don't think so , though. The show is about 3 self absorbed characters each of which is missing a gigantic ability to live in reality. The 2 love birds are on the road to love creating a tough road for themselves indeed. The land lady hit the nail on the head when pointing out real love is cleaning up someone's 'stuff'. The 'love birds' are immature folks working their way to , hopefully , the real thing someday. Self pity is an ugly thing. Watching the main characters mope around in self pity calling 'romantic love' and 'obsession' and working through their 'issues' and 'lust' , love gets old especially when violins are playing in the background trying to make me think this is interesting. All of them lack spunk or anything interesting about them other than they are supposed to be 'heavy'. The movie is 'heavy' , too heavy for me to carry.

svescapekey On the plus side, Rachel Weisz' performance was superb. On the minus side, it doesn't matter. There's little to the story, it follows the protagonist as she has a destructive extra-marital affair with a thoroughly unsympathetic man. Through flashbacks some substance is added to the story. But the bottom line is that this film is a painfully drawn out string of melancholic scenes that I found hard to stay awake through. Yes, I'm sure it has deep sociological meaning, but I found following the characters as they wallowed in their misery less than a satisfying experience. I am again reminded of someone standing in front of an empty canvas and praising the perfect juxtaposition of nihilistic expressionism (no, I haven't a cue what that means). But I enjoy being in the minority.

blanche-2 Terence Davies rewrote some of "The Deep Blue Sea" for this film adaptation, released in 2011 and starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston.Set in the 1950s, Weisz plays Hester, a young woman married to an older man (Simon Russell Beale). In the beginning of the film, we see her attempt suicide, and then we see what led up to it and beyond.We don't know much about her relationship with her husband. She seems fond of him, but not in love, and it's not clear why they married. In this film, he has a perfectly awful mother (Barbara Jefford) - she's not in the play, as I recall.Hester meets a returning air force pilot, Freddie Page (Hiddleston), and the two fall in love, or seem to -- clearly, like Anna Karenina, the physical side of the relationship is something all-encompassing and new to her, and she revels in it. She becomes obsessed with him and ultimately leaves her heartbroken husband, who refuses to give her a divorce. She moves in with her lover.It turns out the object of her affection is very self-involved, very shallow, and very restless for the good old days, loving to spend time in the pub with his cronies singing. "His favorite year is 1940," she tells her husband. He can't love her the way she needs to have him love her. "I can't be Romeo all the time!" he screams at his friend. Her suicide attempt is the last straw. He can't stay with her.This film has the look of the '50s, with his deep colors, and the hairstyles and clothing and mores are perfect. This is England after the war, trying to find its place in an altered world, like Freddie, who thinks being a test pilot in South America is just the ticket.I saw Rachel Weisz recently on stage with her husband Daniel Craig in Betrayal. The play was badly directed but I loved both of them. Weisz is so stunning in person -- absolutely gorgeous. Here she gives such a beautiful, gut-wrenching performance as a woman who can't live without passion. Hiddleston is excellent as a charming, upbeat man who doesn't delve deeply into things and when the going gets tough, runs out the door to the pub. He embodies this perfectly. Simon Russell Beale is a brilliant actor. Here it's obvious his character cares so much for Hester that he feels her pain and in the end, just wants her to be happy. But it's too late for that.The last scene is shattering -- Hester, desolate, looks out her window and sees life going on -- people on their way to work, children playing, people beginning their day...and the camera stops at a bombed out shell and stays there.Sounds like I loved it. I loved the emotion in it. I loved the acting. I actually wasn't crazy about the movie. First of all, I don't really understand the necessity of rewriting Terrence Rattigan. Seems a little presumptuous to me. Also, the filmed moved very slowly. Too slowly and seemed too long. Of course that could have been avoided if Davies hadn't added material.Because this is based on a play, the film has a theatricality about it, but Davies has opened it up. Definitely worth seeing for the acting.

Roland E. Zwick "The Deep Blue Sea" is a tale of adultery from almost the same provenance and time period as the classic "Brief Encounter" by David Lean. In fact, "Sea" is almost what "Encounter" might have been had it been drained of much of its romance, joy and passion. For while, in spite of their obvious misgivings, the couple in "Encounter" clearly enjoyed being in one another's company, the same can not necessarily be said of the lovers here, who seem to share very few moments of genuine joy and happiness throughout the course of their relationship.The 1952 Terrance Rattigan play focuses on Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz), the young, attractive wife of an elderly judge (Simon Russell Beale) who falls in love with Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), an ex-RAF pilot, in post-WW II London. In a bold move for the time, Hester leaves her husband and moves into a flat with Freddie, but we know immediately that things are not going well, for, as the movie opens, we find Hester attempting suicide, with much of the rest of the story exploring, through a combination of contemporary and flashback scenes, how she's reached this low point of desperation.One of the key elements of the Rattigan play is that it is scrupulously fair to all its characters. The author has no interest in casting stones at any of the people involved in the situation, for each is shown to be a fully-realized human being, with all the virtues and flaws that come along with that status. The emotions and relationships remain multi- layered, ambiguous and complex, and writer/director Terence Davies' spare, almost claustrophobic style perfectly captures the airless, dimly lit world these characters inhabit - something akin to a tableau vivant depiction of frustration and unhappiness.As the woman caught between natural lust, a desire for freedom, and the stiff-upper-lipped propriety of the society around her, Rachel Weiscz delivers a thoughtful, moving performance, and she is matched every step of the way by a superb supporting cast. Despite the often drastic changes in social mores that have occurred since the time of the story, "The Deep Blue Sea," with its keen insights into the nature of the human heart, remains universal and relevant to today.